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Posted on 11/05/2011 11:59:29 AM PDT by lbryce
Andy Rooney Dead at 92, One Month After Retiring Never retire: almost six weeks to the day after delivering his last cranky essay on 60 Minutes, writer and commentator Andy Rooney is dead of complications following minor surgery. He was 92, and had delivered exactly 1,097 of his trademark on-air bitch sessions.
It's hard to think of a television correspondent more American than Rooney: interminably cranky, perpetually confused, stubbornly opinionated, slightly bigoted, usually wrong, and strangely likable. Rooney wrote his first "television essay"—"Essay on Doors," natch—in 1964. (It was delivered by CBS correspondent Harry Reasoner). He joined 60 Minutes in 1977, and by 1979 had established himself at the end of every show with what CBS News describes as "wry, humorous and contentious television essays," more often than not just about whatever was annoying Andy Rooney that particular week. Sometimes, this was a good—even noble—thing:
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Good point. Not ragging on you directly.. I believe many retire at 65a and live to 85.. my, how things have changed..
He probably knew.
And wanted to make a statement about his life before it ended.
Goodbye, Mr. Rooney!
You proved one thing, that it’s possible for even a grumpy person to be courteous.
Thanks for the chuckles over the years.
Eh, sometimes you just gotta say “WTF???”!!!!
Sorry, I’m a little touchy today, my apologies for being abrupt/callous. I do know that retirement and life expectancy have a lot of different factors, and I’m by no means an actuary. I had just always heard that people die shortly after retirement and I was trying to find a stat, and that was a study I could find. I would try and look at how long someone draws SS, but it wouldn’t be accurate, in my opinion, because people can draw SS while working, or their spouses may draw having never retired, or they may get SSDI, so I rule that statistic out for all the confounding variables. At the time of the study life expectancy may have been different from what it will be in 5 or even 10 years from now. Heck 20 years ago we didn’t have nearly 70% of the population overweight, with nearly 35% being obese. I’m sure that brings a whole lot of change to mortality rates too, we’ll see in a few years/decades.
Again, I’m sorry for being snippy, I apologize.
;0)
“... if only he hadn’t retired, he’d live indefinitely...”
Reminds me of an obituary I read of a woman that died at age 102. She “unexpectedly” died on a listed date. Unexpected? Who in her family really couldn’t expect her to die... and soon? Rooney was 92 years old. Whether he was still working at 60 Minutes or not... he would have passed away from complications from the surgery. IMHO.
Thanks for being a sport! :0)
Just watching football and freeping... no retirement yet.
Anybody know what kind of surgery he had?
Public employees
In many departments in Cal, Fire Fighters and Peace officers can retire at age 50 with 3% of highest salary times the number of years of service. Used to be age 55 until about 9 years ago. Part of the current problem in California.
When you’re 92, there’s no such thing as ‘minor surgery.’
Having worked in surgery 40 years, I have learned that minor surgery is what we do to you, Major surgery is what they do to me.
RIP Mr Rooney, I didn’t agree with you but I won’t speak ill of the dead.
JDW11235: Huntsman supporter
“Who the hell retires at 50?”....Usually people on government pensions, like firemen.
What are you talking about? Check my posting history, genius, NO ONE dislike Huntsman more than I do.
*dislikes
“interminably cranky, perpetually confused, stubbornly opinionated, slightly bigoted, usually wrong”
Rooney was usually right, but in an insane world sanity looks insane.
Thanks lbryce.
Agreed. I never cared for him, he was a liberal in the mold of “Uncle Walt”, but I don’t wish him ill, and hope his family finds consolation.
I suppose that happens to people who are so unimaginative that they cannot think of a single thing to do when given the opportunity and must be told what to do by someone else (i.e., work).
Pity.
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